ESPN and ESPN2 to Broadcast Little League International Tournament's U.S. Regional Championship Games

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (Aug. 11, 2005) – The 59th Little League Baseball
World Series, Aug. 19-28 in Williamsport, Pa., will have 16 teams
vying for the title of Little League Baseball World Champion.

Seven teams have won regional championships, and qualified for the
World Series tournament. In the coming days, nine more teams will
travel the road to Williamsport, including teams representing eight
regions in the United States.

The Entertainment and Sports Program Network (ESPN) and its family of
networks will televise the U.S. regional tournament championship
games, which decide the teams that will compete in the Little League
Baseball World Series, live beginning Friday night. All game times are
Eastern U.S. time.

The Southeast championship will be decided on Friday, at Arnold S.
White, Sr. Stadium in St. Petersburg, Fla. Dave Ryan and Kyle Peterson will
call the game on ESPN, starting at 7 p.m.

Bob Carpenter and Larry Bowa, the 2005 Bill Shea Distinguished Little
League Graduate Award winner, will provide play-by-play and analysis
for the Midwest and Great Lakes championship games to be played on
Stokely Field at the Ruben F. Glick Leadership Training Center in
Indianapolis. The Midwest title game is set for 9 p.m., Friday, on
ESPN, and the Great Lakes championship will be settled Saturday, at 7
p.m., on ESPN.

President George W. Bush, the first Little League Baseball graduate to
be elected President of the United States, will throw out the
ceremonial first pitch at Saturday’s Southwestern Region championship
game on Marvin Norcross Stadium at the Southwestern Region Leadership
Training Center in Waco, Texas. Dave Barnett and Mark McClemore will
have the call on ESPN at 9 p.m.

The New England champion will be determined on Sunday at the A.
Bartlett Giamatti Little League Baseball Leadership Training Center in
Bristol, Conn. ESPN’s broadcast team of Mr. Ryan and Mr. Peterson will
provide game coverage starting at 3 p.m.

In San Bernardino, Calif., Gary Miller and Darnell Coles will describe
Sunday’s action in the West championship game at Al Houghton Stadium,
starting at 10 p.m., on ESPN2.

On Monday, the final two U.S. region champions will qualify for a trip
to Williamsport, when Mr. Ryan and Mr. Peterson broadcast the
Mid-Atlantic championship game from the A. Bartlett Giamatti Little
League Baseball Leadership Training Center in Bristol, at 7 p.m., on
ESPN2. Mr. Miller and Mr. Coles will provide the play-by-play for the
Northwest championship game from Houghton Stadium in San Bernardino,
on ESPN, at 9 p.m.

ABC will televise the Little League Baseball World Series U.S.
championship game on Aug. 27, at 3:30 p.m. The world championship game
of the Little League Baseball World Series can be seen live on ABC at
3:30 p.m., on Aug. 28. Twenty-seven other World Series games will be
televised on ESPN or ESPN2 for a total of 29 games on national
television. Three other games will be televised in ESPN Deportes
marking the first time that all 32 games of the Little League Baseball
World Series tournament will be on television.

Little League Baseball is the largest organized youth sports program
in the world, with 2.7 million participants in all 50 states and more
than 80 other countries.